God. It took me two days to finish this (that includes a lot of procrastinating, namely lying in the sun reading a Jimi Hendrix autobiography and drinking tea).

Every time I start out drawing a waratah, I'm reminded why I never draw them. They're excruciating. And this is only the third time I've tried to draw one.

But, this is for my mum, and she digs waratahs and regent bowerbirds, so.

I'm not sure how she's going to feel about the wallaby skull (she's not big on "dark" themes)... but it is a nod to our ongoing argument about who gets to keep the animal bones my dad is always finding.

Why -- after a whole weekend of staring at a blank page, thinking, "I can't think of anything to draw," and "I ain't got shit to do," -- do I wake up on Monday morning and think of about seven different things I'd like to draw and at least three other projects I promised people I'd start on?

I'm really pleased that Alexandra Valenti can channel some kind of divine, creative-mystic soul from somewhere outside the range of normal human minds. It makes the start of another office day a lot easier to take.
Also, that moto jacket in the fifth image from the top. Damn. Where can I possibly...?

Summer is now on its way... the days are longer, the nights are warmer... Maybe we can go lay outside on the grass and enjoy a clear night sky soon. Sugarhigh + Lovestoned have shared a little night-mystic inspiration to accompany a slip through the change of seasons -- spring in the south and autumn in the north.

I'm at odds here; I'm not sure what to do... Is cactus print better on a long-sleeve shirt, a long-sleeve dress, a short-sleeve dress or a maxi skirt? And while making this important decision, we've got to keep in mind that the dresses and shirt all have cute little cut-outs on the collarbone/shoulder areas.

Ideally, this kind of debate would end in one of each. Everything cactus print. The only truly logical solution.

Anyway, all that Cormac McCarthy I've been reading must have messed with my mind -- I can only think in terms of horses and wolves and cowboys and outlaws and vast expanses of Mexican desert. Well.

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~ ABOUT ~

Illustrator and writer, by nature the former and by circumstance the latter. Grew up in the bush and moved to the city, traipsed around the east coast, fell in love, read Cormac McCarthy, listened to Townes Van Zandt and picked up a banjo.

I’m interested in the balance of things, of things as they really are — neither here nor there, beautiful or horrible, strong or weak, wise or stupid. And in no way mundane.